[Samsung Mesmerize] bippi79:
The Avatar Team is proud to present:

Avatar ROM

CM based ROM for Samsung Mesmerize (mesmerizemtd)

Love the minimal feel of CM? Love the themeing capability of MIUI?

The Avatar team brings you, both combined in one ROM. Now enjoy beautiful MIUI themes on Cyanogen base.

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Details:

Android JB - 4.2.2

CM10.1

Instructions:

If it's the first time flashing avatarrom or coming from another ROM

Same as cyanogen - Link
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Our Changes:

The platform for avatarrom as of now is CM10.1. The following components are changed on top CM10.1.

Status Bar

Fixed memory leaks

Theme Chooser

Google playstore like theme chooser - head here and download cool MIUI converted themes and CM themes.

Bazooka Launcher (market link)

Own launcher which is an enhanced version of Trebuchet (you can download this at the end of this post)

Enhanced theming by adding dockbar

Preview mode to edit workspaces

Many new Customization options.

Different gestures like swipe-up, swipe-down, double-tap, home-button press are added.

Added "edit workspace" option in menu button.

Messaging App

Changed message thread to make them themeable

Themeable Emoticons

Boot Animation

Themeable boot animation - the only CM ROM to do so.

Font Theming

Only ROM to support change of font without a reboot.

Tons of themes which change font - Eg: Buff, Simpsons, Mi_Xmas, European Gorgeous etc

Settings

Changed statistics to point to Avatar statistics server

OTA updater - you can check for updates to Avatar right from your device

Changed to support Avatar ROMs

Support for Gapps - download latest Gapps package as an OTA update

Framework

Integrated with ACRA Error Reporter for system wide crashes

Lockscreen

Changed to make them themeable

Support for complex unlock gestures

Weebo

A smart tasker kind of app which can help you to automate your device.

You can use exisiting rules or create your own customized rules for your needs.

More info - Link

Layout Theming

Themes not only change images, colors but it also can change the size, shape and position of any UI element.

More info - Link

Theme Editor

A tool to insulate you from all the complex operations involved in theming.

More info - Link

usage - Link

Recent Changelog

06/08/2013 - AvatarROM 2.14b release

Cyanogen Mod RC4

OTA Updater app can now flash with Gapps( This time also they need to do manual flashing of gapps. From next time it will be automatic if correct recovery is installed.) TWRP and unlocked clockworkmod is supported. Official locked clockworkmod recovery is not supported.

Lot of Theme chooser crash fixes.

Theme chooser gets updates from server, when the theme changes.

Notification for theme updates.

Fix for lock screen not showing music status for some themes.

Launcher

Crashes reported in error reporter have been fixed.

Some performance optimizations have been made when scrolling the workspace.

06/01/2013 - AvatarROM 2.13b release

CM merges till 28-05-2013

Bazooka --Custom grid size fix. Bug fixes.

Weebo -- UX/UI changes for location screen. Improved UI for mapping location screens.

Nova Launcher fix

Lockscreen support for new MIUI tag

Theme Chooser - some bug fixes

Service unregister crash

Notification added to show theme installing and installed

Previous releases

05/25/2013 - Avatar ROM 2.12b release.

CM 10.1 code merges till 21st May (RC2 Tag)

Mixing Themes - When applying a theme, you can now pick the components. Eg: If you want only the lock screen and boot animation from WP7 theme you can now choose it. We are one step closer to MiUi style of mixing and matching.

Rom Toolbox - Rom images will be available for download from Rom Toolbox app instantly. Fully automated.

Theme Chooser -

Support for enabling/disabling components when applying a theme

Improved facebook sharing and brand new gallery page (http://theme.avatarrom.com:3000/)

Bug fixes and improved graphics.

Launcher

Transitions in app drawer (like workspace)

App drawer can now be made transparent (no more black background)

Performance improvements in app drawer scrolling

Weebo

Ability to map a particular cell id to a location through location logs

Fixed bug related to mobile network not available

05/18/2013 - With more features and fixes Avatar team releasing the latest version 2.11b

Merged with CM 10.1 RC2 tag (May 15th, 2013)

Added Centre Clock feature - can be enabled/disabled from Settings

Made Navigation bar themeable - the resource name is nav_bar_bg

Made Statusbar Transparent - Default Status bar is now 25% transparent. Themes which have transparent status bar can make use of this. Seasons is one such theme.

Weebo

A 4x3 weebo widget can be added in homescreen. It displays current location and recent actions taken by weebo. This list is updated whenever there is location change or any actions are performed by weebo.

Fix for change of location when network is not detected

Removed cell-Id display from recent events logs. Remove cell-Id entries from recent events list shown in weebo.

Changed location tracking time options from locations page. Put a "recommanded" text for 4 hours option and removed "5 minutes" tracking time.

Action notifications are getting cleared now

Removed Actions in the notifications s when notification is cleared. When user removes notification the actions shown in notification are cleared.

Launcher

Feature to lock/unlock homescreen. Once homescreen is locked apps or widgets cannot be moved.

Fix a bug related to Gesture detection

Theme Chooser

Some memory leak fixes

Added support to share a fav theme on facebook

Existing AvatarROM users can update via OTA from setting-> About Phone-> Avatar Updates

More info about 2.11b release - http://avatarrom.com/update-2-11b-for-avatarrom-now-pushing-through-weebo-fixes-draw-along/

05/11/2013 - Avatar team is proud to present the 2.10b version based on the latest CM 10.1 RC base (Stable build).

Merged with CM 10.1 RC1 tag (May 8th, 2013)

Added more space between wifi and signal icons in status bar

Added gapps version in Error Reporter

Message Bubbles - Reset the bubbles similar to stock version bubble when not themed.

Theme Chooser - Themes now display the size of the apk.

Theme Chooser - Fixed memory leaks

Theme Chooser - Fixed download problems with some themes - cobalt blue, cobalt inferno etc

Bazooka --> Fixed Widget scolling issue when Widgets are placed on Home screen.

Bazooka --> Fixed the dockbar pages issue. You can select number of pages in Settings screen of Bazooka launcher.

Bazooka --> Other minor bug fixes.

Weebo --> Fixing the issue where files cannot be read from /mnt/sdcard/weebo folder.

Weebo --> Contact picker to make it simpler to select the contacts you want to call/send message to.

Weebo --> New categories in "All rules" callled Enabled and Disabled. This shows currently enabled/disabled rules.

Weebo --> Location exit condition bug fixed. You can now trigger actions when you leave a particular location.

Existing Avatar ROM Users - Hit the refresh button from "settings -> About Phone -> Avatar ROM Updates" for download via OTA

AvatarROM is now available for download via ROM Toolbox lite and pro versions. Thanks jrummy.

05/04/2013 - AvatarROM 2.9b release.

CyanogenMod merges till May 2nd 2013.

SystemUI fixes during expanded desktop (the background was not covering till the end. Also portrait - landscape transition, the notifications wouldn't expand fully)

ThemeChooser : Fixes for text invisible in installed themes tab for dark themes

ThemeChooser will not handle market links anymore and Memory leak fix.

Old themechooser is removed completely.

Launcher : Fix crash without wipe & make dockbar transperant.

In OTA updater show that the gapps and rom is installed if they are installed. ( Previously it used to show new or downloaded).

Change Cyanogen Mod Updates to Avatar Updates

We have a global error reporter collecting the crashes reported by the user using ACRA. Error Reporter link

04/27/2013 - AvatarROM 2.8b Release

Merged CM changes till 24th April ( includes Camera driver fixes for lot of devices )

Bazooka Launcher

Fixed some critical issues reported in previous build.

Added Gestures in workspace. A settings page also added to configure gesture actions. Different gestures like swipe-up, swipe-down, double-tap, home-button press are added. Different actions for each of the gesture can be set in preference.

Added ""edit workspace"" option in menu button.

Removed ""pinch to preview mode"". This option is currently disabled for some issues as we can go to preview mode through many other ways. It will be added later.

Many new Customization options."

Lockscreen

Fixed a bug

Fixed Settings crash on Input Method

Fixed Version Number problem in Error Reporter

Theme Chooser

Removed Old theme chooser

enabled Total download count of themes

Sorting themes based on download count

Sorting themes based on date

Settings App now launches the new Theme chooser

03/31/2013 - AvatarROM 2.5b Release

Latest CM 10.1 code merges for 2.5b release(upto Mar 28th 2013)

Included new theme chooser based on Aptoide(Alpha release)

Lockscreen - Enable/Disable vibration when unlocking from settings -> Lockscreen -> Screen Security -> Vibrate

Launcher - Option to edit workspace in menu

Weebo - Bug fixes and now you can create your own rules (see - http://avatarrom.com/weebo-rules/)

OTA - Full support from client side. Next update will be via OTA.

General bug fixes

03/15/2013 - AvatarROM 2.3b Release

Latest CM 10.1 code merges ( upto Mar 13th 2013)

Fix Settings -> About phone -> Status crash

Usual bug fixes

02/24/2013

50 new themes

OTA Fixes

Lockscreen fix - time not coming along with unlocker

Launcher updated with profiles

Weebo app (Tasker like application - Beta). Currently supported only in 4.1.2.

Latest merge with CM code base

Bug fixes, Performace improvements and many more

Download Avatar ROM for Samsung Mesmerize (mesmerizemtd) :

Beta Release - Android version 4.2.2 based on CM10.1

Link(Jun 08,2013)

Gapps (4.2.2)
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Videos:

Sample Video - checkout our MIUI style lockscreens, statusbar, messaging, etc and the smooth transition of themes:

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Review by Phone tech kid

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All Videos

Credits:

Cyanogen Team

Trebuchet launcher

MiUi Theme creators

If there are any errors let us know in the comments or file the bug at http://issues.avatarrom.com

You can find more information at http://www.avatarrom.com

Feature request page - https://avatarrom.uservoice.com/forums/193652-avatarrom-feature-request